GHOSTING

Etymology

Noun

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.

(electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.

(computing) Ghost imaging.

A form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased.

(computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.

(slang) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. [from 2014]

The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.

Verb

ghosting

present participle of ghost

Source: Wiktionary

GHOST

Ghost, n. Etym: [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gast breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]

1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser.

2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge.

3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.

4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. Ghost moth (Zoöl.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift.

– Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity.

– To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33.

Ghost, v. i.

Definition: To die; to expire. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Ghost, v. t.

Definition: To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition